Tanya S. DeGenova, CEO and President

Education:
B.A. Syracuse University
MA Georgetown University, International Relations

Additional training includes numerous specialized investigative schools and management related seminars.

Tanya S. DeGenova, a retired FBI special agent, brings to TSD Security Consulting over twenty years of experience with the FBI where she served as an interpreter, as a special agent and as a supervisory special agent both at FBI headquarters and in the Boston Field office. Tanya S. DeGenova’s managerial experience in the FBI includes four years as a program manager within the National Security Division at FBI headquarters, Washington, D.C. and three years as a squad supervisor in the Boston Field Office.

During Tanya S. DeGenova's tenure within the Boston Office of the FBI, she supervised the Counter Terrorism Program (to include Domestic and International Terrorism, the Joint Terrorism Task Force and all Liaison with Logan International Airport regarding Aviation Security Issues) and managed the Recruitment and Processing of FBI personnel, all background pre-employment investigations for FBI personnel and presidential appointees, Civil Rights (to include all bias motivated crimes), Training, Media and Public Relations, the Employees Assistance Program and the Community Outreach Program. Ms. DeGenova also had overall program responsibility for all personnel and physical security and countermeasures as the designated Office Security Program Manager.

Ms. DeGenova is a licensed private detective within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and served on the Board of Directors of the Licensed Private Detective Association of Massachusetts (LPDAM), on the LPDAM Legislative Committee and Chaired the 2002 Annual Spring Training Seminar which focused on Homeland Security for the PI and Security Consultant. Ms. DeGenova has been an active member of the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS) and has earned her CPP in September, 2006.

From January 2003 to April of 2005, Ms. DeGenova consulted full-time to the US Military in Germany (both the USAF-OSI and the US Army 66th MI in Landstuhl and Wiesbaden, GE) and took care of our wounded soldiers at the Landstuhl US Army Hospital in Landstuhl, GE as an American Red Cross volunteer.

Ms. DeGenova special skills include sailboat racing, Race Committee work at the Boston Yacht Club in Marblehead, MA and civic activities through her membership with the Marblehead Rotary Club. Ms. DeGenova is fluent in French and Russian and has good written and oral German language skills.

E-mail: tanya@tsdconsulting.